Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

God of mercy!

Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others make me feel that they have saved me the trouble.

This is our world now The world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud.

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.